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Customized school spiral notebook and notebook design and production method

a notebook and spiral notebook technology, applied in the field of spiral notebooks, can solve the problems of limited space and rather expensive notebooks for students

Inactive Publication Date: 2008-09-25
GPA MEDIA
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[0024]Other objects and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent to those persons having ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention pertains from the foregoing description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

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This notebook is rather expensive for students and is limited in the information and functions provided to the student.

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[0036]Pursuant to one aspect of the present invention, disclosed herein are a method or system for designing, producing and distributing customized spiral notebooks to intended student recipients of one or more schools. A flow chart illustrating this method / system is illustrated in FIGS. 11A and 11B generally at 50. Referring thereto, the production coordinator begins at block 54 and proceeds in two paths—one for the schools 58 and the other for the advertisers 62. These paths can run simultaneously, can run one before the other, or can alternate, with one path proceeding for a while, followed by the other path, back to the first path, and so forth, until the two paths meet as will be described later.

[0037]The school's path 58, on the left side of FIGS. 11A and 11B, will be discussed first. The coordinator picks a school 66 from a database of schools 70 (e.g., colleges, universities, private high schools, etc.), identifies and contacts the school representatives 74 to establish a pa...

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Customized school spiral notebooks are designed using school content information received from schools who are co-branding partners with the production coordinator and advertising content received from advertisers. The notebooks include front and back covers, a plurality of sheets including the school content information and at least some of the advertising content, and a plurality of divider sheets separating sets of writing paper, such as ruled, graph and / or blank paper. The divider sheets and / or the covers can also include at least some of the advertising content thereon. A plastic spiral binder holds the notebook together. The school content information can include a school phone directory, a campus map and an academic calendar; and a class planner can be provided on one of the content sheets. The respective customized notebooks are provided to each of the partner schools by the production coordinator at no charge, or a very minimal charge. Advertising profits can be shared with the partner schools.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention is directed to spiral-bound notebooks and to methods and systems for designing and producing them.[0002]An example of a spiral notebook sold to and used by students in colleges, universities and other schools is the FIVE STAR® notebook available from MeadWestvaco Corporation of Stamford, Conn. It is a five subject notebook having a flexible front cover and a stiff back cover, each with a storage pocket, and 200 sheets of NEAT SHEET® perforated college ruled paper between the covers. The pages can tear out to full 8½×11 inch sheets. The notebook is held together by a metal spiral binder. Printed on the front side of the back cover are an inch ruler, a centimeter ruler, conversion tables and formulae, a U.S. map with time zones and state capitals, computer key combinations and a space for writing phone numbers. A removable advertising / information longitudinal half-sheet is provided on top of the top cover and includes a product ba...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): B42D1/00
CPCB42B5/12B42D1/006B42D5/008G09F23/10B42P2221/06B42P2241/16G06Q30/02B42P2221/04
Inventor CANASI, ALEJANDROSCHELBERT, MARK
Owner GPA MEDIA
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